Woodhaven Bank v. Brooklyn Hills Improvement Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from trial term, Queens county. Action by the Woodhaven Bank against the Brooklyn Hills Improvement Company. Prom a judgment in favor of plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJenks, J.
The plaintiff sued upon three promissory notes, made subsequent to July io, 1893, and signed, “Brooklyn Hills Improvement Company, by C. G. Davison, Manager.” The answers raised the question of the authority of Davison to sign the notes. The plaintiff read in evidence a minute book of the defendant, wherein was a record ■of a meeting held July 10, 1893, setting forth the adoption of a resolution of authority in Davison. The defendant also read in evidence another minute book of the defendant, which contained a minute of the same meeting, but which did not show any resolution of such…
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